Word: tenements
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...Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark and New York. Thomas J. Donovan, vice president of Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc., said at an industry gathering last week that racketeers now build stills that cost from $50,000 to $75,000, peddle their output through Manhattan parking lots, neighborhood candy stores and tenement speakeasies. "Obviously," concluded Donovan, "they aren't doing it simply on speculation. They know they have a ready market to recoup their investment...
...summer morning in the early '20s, a tough little boy hung by his fingers from a tenement cornice, five stories above a littered Bronx street. Leaning on their window sills, Jules Garfinkle's neighbors gawked and gasped. Jules pulled himself back up on the roof and proudly collected his dime bet. Except for fighting in the streets, he liked nothing better than making easy money by showing...
...read Uncle Tom's Cabin and believe it represents the United States today." Indian Statesman Sir Benegal Rau spoke of her as a U.S. phenomenon comparable to Niagara Falls. In Bombay an admiring Indian textile worker spread ice yards of silk in her path up a tenement district stairway. She went right on being Mrs. Roosevelt. She "performed namas-kar" repeatedly, once giving some wealthy hosts the jim jams by using it to salute the footmen at dinner. She crept into native mud huts, worked an ancient spinning wheel in New Delhi, accepted a handmade revolver from Khyber Pass...
Higher Authority. In El Paso, Martin Fernandez explained to the city council why he had kept making repairs on his condemned tenement building despite an order from the city building inspector to stop: "My wife told me to go ahead with the work...
...between, he follows man through the stone age (tenement dwelling), the ice age (wild cocktail parties), and the age of reason (where man learns superstitions). The story is told with a minimum of text and many marvelously clear drawings...